Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt#
Sadly, this member passed away. | |
Membership Number: | 1329 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
Elected: | 1993 |
Main Country of Residence: | RUSSIA |
Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt passed away June 22, 2018.
Positions Held
- 1997 Professor in Residence, Dept. of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley
- 1997 - 2008 Mathematician, Dept. of Mathematics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- 1996,97 Visiting Professor, Dept. of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley
- 1996,97 S.P.Timoshenko Visiting Professor, Applied Mechanics Division of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
- 1996 Visiting Miller Research Professor, University of California at Berkeley
- 1995 - 1996 Iberdrola Visiting Professor, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
- 1995 Visiting Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 1994 Hill Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- 1993 BBV Visiting Professor, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
- 1994 Emeritus G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics, University of Cambridge
- 1992 - 1994 G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics, University of Cambridge
- 1992 Adviser, Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences
- 1992 Visiting Professor, University of Rome `Tor Vergata'
- 1992 Quatercentenary Visiting Fellow, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, UK
- 1991 Visiting Scholar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
- 1991 Visiting Scholar, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- 1990 Visiting Professor, Université de Paris VI, Pierre et Marie Curie
- 1975 - 1992 Head, Theoretical Department, Institute of Oceanology, USSR Academy of Sciences
- 1961 - 1975 Head, Department of Plasticity, Institute of Mechanics, Moscow University
- 1953 - 1961 Research Scientist, Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Petroleum, USSR Academy of Sciences
Fields of Scholarship
- Fracture mechanics
- Theory of fluid and gas flows in porous media
- Mechanics of non-classical deformable solids
- Turbulence
- Self-similarities
- Nonlinear waves and intermediate asymptotics
Honours and Awards
- 1975 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- 1984 Foreign Member, Danish Center of Applied Mathematics & Mechanics
- 1988 Foreign Member, Polish Society of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics
- 1989 Doctor of Technology Honoris Causa at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- 1992 Foreign Associate, U.S. National Academy of Engineering
- 1993 Fellow, Cambridge Philosophical Society
- 1993 Member, Academia Europaea
- 1994 Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; (since 1999, Honorary Fellow)
- 1995 Lagrange Medal, Accademia Nazzionale dei Lincei
- 1995 Modesto Panetti Prize and Gold Medal
- 1997 Foreign Associate, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- 1999 G.I. Taylor Medal, U.S. Society of Engineering Science
- 1999 J.C. Maxwell Medal and Prize, International Congress for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- 2000 Foreign Member, Royal Society of London
- 2005 Doctor of Civil Engineering Honoris Causa at the Torino Polytechnic Institute, Italy
- 2005 S.P. Timoshenko Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- 2009 Honorary Fellow, International Congress on Fracture